Fascinating History of Your G-Sharp Key - Flute Tube 64
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 25 ก.ค. 2024
- A few weeks ago, we talked about why you might want to get a split E mechanism on your Böhm system flute. I don't want to leave you with the impression that Böhm sloppily created a need for the split E key - which he then did not provide! It all has to do with the fascinating history behind your extra-complicated, closed G-sharp key. Unless you happen to play a flute with an open G-sharp key. Does anyone out there? I know my friend Ilze in the Latvian Symphony Orchestra still does, as do some of her Latvian colleagues. Who else?
Here are some helpful websites with information on this topic. A quick text summary:
www.flutes.com/open-g-sharp/
A website with great photos, including the ones I used in my video (with permission) by Richard M. Wilson:
www.oldflutes.com/articles/dor...
Lots more information and photos relating to Böhm system flutes:
theobald-boehm-archiv-und-wet...
Now, who wants to switch to an open G-sharp key flute? 😀
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Very interesting, sometimes I'm just happy I play a keyboard instrument, although we have our own 'difficulties'
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This history is fascinating-- I often forget that the flute didn't automatically jump from fifes to our modern mechanism.
As a kid I always fantasized about playing a flute. But it has quite an interesting history!
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This is so interesting! Fascinating history
It is quite interesting to learn about the illogical second g-sharp key we added to our flutes... human beings are interesting creatures! 😆 Thanks for watching!
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This video was timed perfectly! A few days ago my friend and I were discussing the way that the flute works and the function of the keys as they move the pitch up or down.
Great! I think it's surprisingly illogical in some ways - like our duplicate G-sharp key. But that's the way almost the entire flute world has drifted, in spite of Böhm's wishes!
I need to think about all this fascinating stuff. There are quite of a lot technicalities to take on board. I hope to have it sorted out in my brain before the next episode. I have always actively disliked playing G sharp (especially in the top octave) (closed system) but after your very interesting explanations I will be more respectful and think about it more. Thanks again for a delightful (and useful) episode. I also have to think a bit more about split E key mechanisms (which I don't have). It's all a bit like understanding how a car really works instead of simply just driving it.
True, it's a lot to sort out - how things were put together, and why. Especially when at least some of it is not very logical! I've been wondering all week - if I'd been in Dorus' position, which direction would I have gone? Which choice would I have made, for myself and my students? He made the choice that was clearly less logical, but his closed G-sharp key is the one that has prevailed nearly everywhere in the world by now! And I can see the reasons why....
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Thanks so much - I'm glad if it's helpful!
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There’s a lot of good thought that has been put into the technical details of the flute. I’m glad I didn’t have to deal with other complicated fingerings they had to use back then
It's funny that our solution ultimately involved creating a DUPLICATE G-sharp key. But yes, it's nice we got to lose a lot of the complicated "cross fingering" that used to help with pitch, etc.
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Hi April, You covered this subject very well, and as an open G# geek myself, I appreciate your special attention to it. I want to point out, however, that the term "open G-sharp key" is a misnomer because keys--specifically key CUPS--are named for the note produced when they are closed. Therefore, it is a G NATURAL key that is sprung open and produces G natural when it is closed, and the lever that closes it should be called a G (natural) key lever. Only the tone HOLE should be called G sharp. I don't know why Boehm himself used the term "open G sharp key." Maybe he thought he'd be better understood by others who were calling it that.
Thanks for your comment! Yes, I've seen this before. I didn't take the time to deal with it in the video because... well, the video was getting long... and I decided simply to go with the term that the general flute playing public will come across. But it's an interesting point, and I'm glad people can see it in your comment here! 👍 Perhaps Boehm thought that saying something instead, like "G natural key lever," was too difficult for people to understand quickly...?
It is confusing - I had to rewind a bit and figure it out, which is “open” and which is “closed?”
Whoa this is so cool! I had no idea!!
Thanks for watching! History is pretty interesting and not always logical 😆
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You're right, this is fascinating! Do you know if any models of the flute are still being made with an open G# key? I'd be curious to try it out!
I now realize that you answered this in your next video... Looks like I'll be traveling to Eastern Europe someday :)
Haha - I don't know if any of our standard flute companies, like Burkart or Powell, Muramatsu, Brannen, etc offer any open g-sharp key flutes. I imagine it'd take a whole different manufacturing set-up, and quite an investment of time to do it right as a result. I feel oddly cheated I never got to make the personal choice on what kind of g-sharp key to play. What if I'd been given the choice, told all the reasons behind both choices, and chosen open???? Maybe I'll switch to open in my 70s, to help me do something tricky and avoid senility. 😆
Altus will make an open sharp flute on special order on all of the models in their range.
Apparently other Japanese makers will do so on some of their models.
Oooh this is really interesting to know, especially for a non-flautist like me! 😱
It's a lot of new info for someone who DOES play the flute to take in - I'm especially impressed if you're learning all about the history of the flute and don't even play it! 😀
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I've been longing for an explanation of this since hearing "Talking Flutes" podcast advocate getting an open G-sharp. Fingering G# always annoys me. It feels so illogical. Now I know why.
Yes - it is strange that we ended up making the flute mechanism more complicated in spite of Boehm's wishes just ... because!
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That's just not true. It's very easy to switch to open g#. It takes a few weeks after a lifetime of closed. Open g# solves several problems and would be easier to learn initially